Chartered Surveyor League Table
This is a list of the chartered surveyors who have gone to the Valuation Tribunals for England and Wales on behalf of ratepayers over the last 12 months, and a record of how they performed. It covers the 20 firms named on the most business rates appeal decisions from November 2025 to October 2026: how many cases each took to a hearing, how often the tribunal reduced the rateable value, and by how much. The table is updated at the start of each month.
Decisions November 2025 to October 2026 Table updated 1 November 2026 Valuation Tribunals for England and Wales Open Government Licence v3 (England)
Firms in the table
21
the top 20 by decisions in the last 12 months
Tribunal decisions
434
appeals these firms took to a decision in the last 12 months
Average win rate when argued
57% of 423
cases argued at a hearing that won any reduction
Typical cut when won
11.5%
median reduction in rateable value in the cases won
The league table
Decisions from 1 November 2025 to 31 October 2026, updated on the 1st of each month. Ranked by number of decisions; “=” means firms are level. “Move” compares each firm’s rank with last month’s table (the 12 months to September 2026). Download the table as CSV or JSON.
| Rank | Move | Firm | Decisions | Argued at hearing | Not attended** | Win rate when argued | Typical cut when won | Councils | Latest decision |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | – | Ryan incl. Altus Group, LHL, WYM Rating, CVS | 247 | 239 | 8 | 50% (120 of 239) | 10.8% | 103 | |
| 2 | – | Colliers | 56 | 55 | 1 | 76% (42 of 55) | 14.7% | 25 | |
| 3 | – | Knight Frank | 19 | 19 | 0 | 68% (13 of 19) | 16.9% | 5 | |
| 4 | 2 | JMA Chartered Surveyors | 14 | 14 | 0 | 71% (10 of 14) | 13.8% | 5 | |
| 5 | 1 | WSP incl. GL Hearn | 13 | 13 | 0 | 85% (11 of 13) | 12.3% | 9 | |
| 6 | 1 | Newmark incl. Gerald Eve | 12 | 12 | 0 | 75% (9 of 12) | 30.2% | 12 | |
| 7 | – | CBRE | 9 | 9 | 0 | 67% (6 of 9) | 6.3% | 5 | |
| 8 | – | Lambert Smith Hampton | 8 | 8 | 0 | 50% (4 of 8) | — | 7 | |
| =9 | 1 | BNP Paribas Real Estate | 6 | 6 | 0 | 83% (5 of 6) | 7.5% | 5 | |
| =9 | 3 | Cluttons | 6 | 6 | 0 | 50% (3 of 6) | 9.3% | 5 | |
| =9 | 1 | Dunlop Heywood | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0% (0 of 5) | — | 3 | |
| =9 | – | Rabbette | 6 | 6 | 0 | 33% (2 of 6) | 24.7% | 3 | |
| =13 | 1 | ForeView | 5 | 5 | 0 | 100% (5 of 5) | 7.5% | 2 | |
| =13 | 1 | Ken Batty | 5 | 4 | 1 | 75% (3 of 4) | 4.4% | 5 | |
| =15 | 1 | Graham + Sibbald incl. Aitchison Raffety, Keningtons | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0% (0 of 4) | — | 1 | |
| =15 | 1 | JLL | 4 | 4 | 0 | 75% (3 of 4) | 2.9% | 3 | |
| =15 | 1 | Montagu Evans | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0% (0 of 4) | — | 3 | |
| =15 | 1 | Savills | 4 | 4 | 0 | 50% (2 of 4) | 91.8% | 3 | |
| =19 | – | Avison Young incl. GVA | 3 | 3 | 0 | 33% (1 of 3) | 5.1% | 3 | |
| =19 | – | Hanway Commercial | 3 | 3 | 0 | 100% (3 of 3) | 14.6% | 1 | |
| =19 | – | Roberts Vain Wilshaw | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0% (0 of 3) | — | 2 |
How the table is worked out
We read every business rates appeal decision the Valuation Tribunals for England and Wales publish and record who represented the ratepayer. This table counts the decisions made in the last 12 complete months, and is rebuilt on the 1st of each month, so older decisions drop out as new ones come in. Offices and individual surveyors are grouped under their firm, so “Colliers International – Manchester” counts as Colliers. Where two firms are named on one appeal, it counts for both. Appeals about cash machines are left out, as on every tribunal page on this site.
A case is won when the tribunal reduced the rateable value at all: allowed in full, allowed in part, or a figure agreed at the hearing. The win rate counts only cases argued at a hearing. The typical cut is the median percentage reduction in the cases won.
**What “not attended” means
The tribunal decided the appeal with nobody attending for the ratepayer, usually because it had been dropped or settled. These cases are shown on their own and left out of the win rate. There were 11 in this table.
Reading the win rate fairly
Most appeals settle with the Valuation Officer before a hearing, so this table shows how firms do when a case is fought to the end, not their overall results for clients. A firm that settles well may appear rarely here. A high rate on a handful of cases, or on one run of similar properties, can move a long way on the next decision.
Finding a surveyor
Each firm’s name links to its business rates page. To check that a firm is regulated by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, search the RICS directory of regulated firms. To read the decisions behind these figures, visit our Tribunal decision page.
We list firms as they are named in published decisions and do not recommend any of them. If you represent a firm and think a figure is wrong, email support@businessratechecker.com with the appeal numbers and we will check them against the decisions.
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